OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14450019
CHAMPION INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
SARTELL, MN·
Event description
Employee injures hand in pulp press, later amputated
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was taking pulp samples from an Andritz pulp press when the sheets b egan to pile up between the guard and the pulp shredder. Employee #1 stood on th e machine and reached around the guard to push the pulp sheets into the shredder . His glove became caught in the shredder, and his right hand was pulled in and shredded. The hand had to be surgically amputated at the wrist.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 12
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 73
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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